We wake up in the morning, only to find that Simon’s sleeping bag had mysteriously ended up in the girls tent. Becky expresses surprise at how this could have happened. Wide games were going on, and so, like the keen and sociable district we are, we all went swimming in the river again, having planned to do so for about five hours. Simon asks Greg to fetch his torch from the Girls Store Tent, and surprises Becky, which makes Greg very cross! We washed our hair in the river, and then lay in the sun on the cliff top for ages and ages. Certain DFs enjoyed watching the German Delegation go swimming. Chris throws a rock at a little kid, and very nearly kills him, Lord of the Flies stylee. Becky tans really quicky. We lie on the beach for hours and hours, and most of us end up accidentally sunburning. Nick has the best smoke of his life.

Louise drinks loads of salad dressing for lunch, and puts sugar on her noodles. During the course of the day, several semi-couples emerge, including Louise and Robert, Emilia and Pat, Rosanne and Joe, and everyone’s favourite incest twins, Arthur and Anna, who spend most of their time “playing cards” together. Ed Maltby wants to use Rosanne’s phone, but it sadly didn’t work, so he had to borrow someone’s mobile instead.

We go out, and Chris hugs Milko, who is his usual cheerful self. Simon produces a bottle of red wine, and we drink it. Alan realises that wine is the drink for him. Adrian reprimands Chris for using the mens toilets. Rosanne befriends Caity Roe outside the juice bar, and they swap hats. Nick smokes something really strange, and starts tripping, seeing weird psychedelic stars, and seeing Robert turn into Arthur, and then back into Robert.

We go back to the tents, and Chris makes Rosanne sleep on a load of broken cans with sharp edges, and fills her sleeping bag with widgets. Arthur and Anna disappear under Arthur’s big black cloak, and then both fall over backwards. Nick, probably still tripping, falls over backwards and nearly crushes the Tool Tent. Emily and Nick fall asleep in front of the leaky tent, and Simon strokes the sleeping Emily’s head. There are lots and lots of people outside the leaky tent, in the manner of an auditorium. There are at least three rows. As everyone is drifting off Becky gets cramp and jumps up and runs around the gathered people who shout various different cures, except for Art and Anna whom Becky interrupts. Louise says how much she likes cramp and tries to get Becky to give it to her. Then we all fall asleep and sleep in the mess.

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